1.   A friend with whom my family often celebrates Thanksgiving brings a casserole dish filled with roasted chiles and melted cheese baked in a custard.

2.   Fresh corn kernels and chopped roasted green chiles are great additions to your favorite quiche Lorraine recipe.

3.   He uses three kinds of chiles, including roasted dried green chiles.

4.   Mash the potatoes coarsely, then blend in the tomatillos, garlic, olive oil, roasted chiles, cumin, sour cream, lime juice and cilantro.

5.   Or it could be roasted green chile stuffed with goat cheese, smoked quail and avocado salad, fresh vegetables grilled with black beans and red chile pesto.

6.   Produce stands offer mangoes and fresh roasted green chiles.

7.   Smooth Oaxacan string cheese oozes through tortillas, trailing rajas of roasted chiles.

8.   Then, because this is New Mexico, a bowl of mud-colored salsa, flecked with slivers of roasted chile, comes to rest beside the plate.